In With the Out Crowd: The Outsider Who Refused to be Taken In
Wojnarowiczwas born in Red Bank, New Jersey in 1954. The product of an extremely difficult childhood brought on by an abusive family life and an emerging sense of his own homosexuality, Wojnarowicz dropped out of high school and was living on the streets by the age of sixteen. He turned to hustling in Times Square. After hitchhiking many times across the U.S. and living for several months in San Francisco and Paris, he settled in New York's East Village in 1978.
Many of Wojnarowicz' works incorporate outsider experiences drawn from his personal history and from stories he heard from the people he met in bus stations and truck stops while hitchhiking. By the late 1970s he had, in his own words, "started developing ideas of making and preserving an authentic version of history in the form of images/writings/objects that would contest state-supported forms of 'history.'"
Works by David Wojnarowicz:
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Sounds In The Distance. (1982). Aloes Books.
Tongues Of Flame. (Exhibition Catalog). (1990). Illinois State University.
Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration. (1991). Vintage Books.
Memories That Smell Like Gasoline. (1992). Artspace Books.
Seven Miles a Second
Seven Miles a Second. (Collaborative graphic novel with James Romberger and Marguerite Van Cook, completed posthumously). (1996). Vertigo/DC Comics.
The Waterfront Journals
The Waterfront Journals. (1997). Grove/Atlantic.
David Wojnarowicz: Rimbaud In New York 1978-79
Rimbaud In New York 1978 - 1979. (Edited by Andrew Roth). (2004). Roth Horowitz, LLC/PPP Editions.
In the Shadow of the American Dream: The Diaries of David Wojnarowicz. (Amy Scholder, editor). (2000).
Grove/Atlantic.
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In With the Out Crowd: The Outsider Who Refused to be Taken In
Wojnarowicz was born in Red Bank, New Jersey in 1954. The product of an extremely difficult childhood brought on by an abusive family life and an emerging sense of his own homosexuality, Wojnarowicz dropped out of high school and was living on the streets by the age of sixteen. He turned to hustling in Times Square. After hitchhiking many times across the U.S. and living for several months in San Francisco and Paris, he settled in New York's East Village in 1978.
Many of Wojnarowicz' works incorporate outsider experiences drawn from his personal history and from stories he heard from the people he met in bus stations and truck stops while hitchhiking. By the late 1970s he had, in his own words, "started developing ideas of making and preserving an authentic version of history in the form of images/writings/objects that would contest state-supported forms of 'history.'"
Works by David Wojnarowicz:
Grove/Atlantic.